plasmolysis
‘shrinkage or contraction of the protoplasm away from the wall of a living plant or bacterial cell, caused by loss of water through osmosis’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E.plasmolysis < plasmo- (plasma) + Gk. lysis ‘a loosening’ < lyein ‘to unfasten, loose, loosen, untie’ < luh < leu- < Tamil aṟuttal